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LinkedIn Buys Flipboard Competitor Pulse for $90 Million Apps not shuttering, but new products on the way

It's been a weird month for social and media. A few weeks after Facebook’s managing editor announced his departure and during the same week Tumblr said it is dismantling its…

April 11, 2013, 5:18 PM EDT

Sum of Yahoo's Acqui-hires Could Be a New Mobile Homepage Mobile news app Summly is latest in acquisition spree

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has made of point of prioritizing mobile as central to the portal’s future. That has led to string of acquisitions—the most recent being Monday’s pick-up of…

March 25, 2013, 8:14 PM EDT

Foursquare’s Crowley: Our Users Are Real-World Google Crawlers Check-in service reorienting itself around local search

Foursquare is in the midst of a fundamental paradigm shift, stepping beyond its reputation as the check-in king and toward the more functional (and potentially lucrative) location-recommendation market. Speaking Monday…

March 11, 2013, 6:19 PM EDT

Angry Birds Video Series Launching This Week on TVs, in Apps Rovio has nabbed ads from Activision, Paramount, Sony, BlackBerry

For those considering Rovio to be simply that Finnish company behind the Angry Birds mobile games, stop that right now. Rovio has been positioning itself as an entertainment company on…

March 11, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT

Google Offers Social Sign-In Alternative to Facebook Pits two companies as rivals for online identities

Facebook has pretty much become the Social Security Administration when it comes to unified online identities, thanks to Facebook Connect. Sure, not everyone or every publisher or every app developer…

February 26, 2013, 2:15 PM EST

Instagram Rolls Out Web Feeds for Desktop, Tablet Users Online experience mirrors mobile app

Three months after making its users’ profiles available to view online, Facebook-owned photo-sharing service Instagram has rolled out an online version of its feeds. Starting on Tuesday Instagram’s 90 million…

February 5, 2013, 3:13 PM EST

Twitter Resurrects Video Sharing Apps With Vine Launch Mobile app takes advantage of Cards functionality

Remember last spring when “Instagram for video” apps like Viddy and Socialcam were all the rage? Things have been pretty quiet since then, especially after Socialcam was acquired for $60 million…

January 24, 2013, 12:56 PM EST

Instagram Says It Has 90 Million Monthly Users Photo-sharing service grows post-policy flap

Last month The New York Post sought to spice up the post-Christmas doldrums by reporting that Facebook-owned photo-sharing service Instagram was bleeding users after announcing some controversial policy changes. That report…

January 17, 2013, 5:06 PM EST

The Atlantic Places Another Bet on Apps Atlantic Wire launches HTML5 site, may pull its iPhone app

As publishers wrestle with whether to deliver their digital content in an app or Web-based browser, the browser is gathering momentum. The Atlantic today announced the launch of a tablet-optimized HTML5…

January 9, 2013, 2:42 PM EST

Mobile Gaming Ad Network Chartboost Raises $19 Million Launching in-app commerce product this year

Over the past two years, Chartboost has built its own business by helping mobile game developers run ads in each others’ games to attract players and revenue. That business can…

January 8, 2013, 7:30 AM EST

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